{"id":4000,"date":"2020-03-17T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2022-01-25T03:31:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:31:30","slug":"getting-men-and-women-on-the-same-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Getting Men and Women on the same side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For all the \u2018alleged\u2019 and usually unsubstantiated differences argued to exist between women and men there are 1000-fold more similarities. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hostility, alienation and sense of \u2018difference\u2019 makes us even more alone in this often brutal, divisive world. \u00a0\u00a0We see, men and women frequently screaming with fury at each other on social media because of these \u2018imagined\u2019 differences. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, even at the most basic physiological and hormonal level men and women are almost identical.\u00a0 For example, there is always lots of talk about how testosterone influences \u2018maleness\u2019 in the brain making men better at maps, mathematics, aggression and non-monogamy.\u00a0 But the reality is that testosterone cannot even be utilised in the brain until it is first converted to oestrogen.\u00a0 Both men and women use oestrogen in their brains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, despite misconceptions men and women have very similar genitals.\u00a0 They both have exactly equal amounts of erectile tissue and equal numbers of ejaculatory cells (yes, women ejaculate!) and their genitals look almost indistinguishable in both size and shape once women have their \u2018hidden\u2019 genitals exposed at autopsy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moreover, men are simply assumed to be physically stronger than women because they are often faster than women when running short distances.\u00a0 Yet at around the 80km mark in long distance running women and men are equally competitive.\u00a0 Interestingly, women tend to beat men at longer distances.\u00a0 I also recently read about a 61-year-old woman who fought back against a home invader in his early 20\u2019s and she put him in critical care for his trouble.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Just like in nature, where most animals back away from fights before either gets seriously harmed – it is best for women and men not to fight or compete but to cooperate and love one another.\u00a0 Especially because once all the make-up, high heels, chest-beating and steroids are removed, we are all just people who thrive on love, care, kindness and empathy.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all the \u2018alleged\u2019 and usually unsubstantiated differences argued to exist between women and men there are 1000-fold more similarities. Hostility, alienation and sense of \u2018difference\u2019 makes us even more alone in this often brutal, divisive world. \u00a0\u00a0We see, men and women frequently screaming with fury at each other on social media because of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}